freebsd-ports/devel/p5-IPC-SharedCache/pkg-descr
Akinori MUSHA ed7de446e6 Add p5-IPC-SharedCache, a Perl module for managing a SysV IPC shared
memory cache.

PR:		ports/30189
Submitted by:	Norikatsu Shigemura <nork@cityfujisawa.ne.jp>
2001-09-11 08:38:45 +00:00

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This module provides a shared memory cache accessed as a
tied hash.
Shared memory is an area of memory that is available to
all processes. It is accessed by choosing a key, the
ipc_key arguement to tie. Every process that accesses
shared memory with the same key gets access to the same
region of memory. In some ways it resembles a file
system, but it is not hierarchical and it is resident in
memory. This makes it harder to use than a filesystem but
much faster. The data in shared memory persists until the
machine is rebooted or it is explicitely deleted.